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8000 people are dying daily on social media platform

8,000 people are dying daily
on the social media platform Facebook. By the end of this century, Facebook
will be the world's largest virtual cemetery, because there will be more
profiles of dead people than those living here. Facebook is just one of the
various social media platforms. Thousands of users use Twitter, Instagram,
WhatsApp, Snapchat, Reddit and other apps.

There are approximately two
billion Facebook users, Whatsapp has 1.5 billion, Instagram has one billion and
Twitter has 33.6 million users, of which crores of users are from India.
Despite spending most of the time on digital platforms, some of us actually
consider what will happen to our digital accounts after our death.

The big question is, after
the death of a user of digital platforms, how do the platforms know about the
need to move digital assets such as private photos, videos and posts of friends
to their family? Pawan Duggal, one of the country's top cyber law experts, says
that when someone dies and has emails and social media accounts, he is a
transferable property and any heir of the person concerned can take permission
to run them.

Facebook allows its users to
make a will, under which, after his death, he can choose any family member or
any friend to run his account. Facebook says that when someone tells us that
someone dies, we make his account memorable.

Under the heritage contract,
the heir of the deceased can write a post on the timeline of his Facebook
account. If someone likes that post, then he has to get permission from the
heir to download the photos, posts and profile information of the deceased's account.
The heir, however, will not be able to log in to the deceased's account nor
read his personal messages. Alternatively, you can tell Facebook that his
account can be permanently deleted after death.